Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

Life is like yoga

Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.